USS Puffer (SSN 652)

- decommissioned -

USS PUFFER was the 10th STURGEON - class attack submarine and the second ship in the Navy named after the fish. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on July 12, 1996, the PUFFER subsequently entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Wash. Recycling was completed on March 28, 1997.